Founding Engineer

Tightrope•San Francisco, CA

1d•$180,000 - $225,000•Onsite

About The Position

Tightrope is building the AI operating layer for commercial buildings and facilities. The United States has 5.9 million commercial buildings spanning 96 billion square feet. Every one depends on a network of property teams, tenants, vendors, and service providers to keep it running. Much of that work still happens through documents, spreadsheets, inboxes, and manual follow-up. Our first product is a COI tracking product. Tightrope reads leases and insurance documents, finds liability exposure, and communicates with tenants and vendors until the right documents are on file. COI tracking is our first step toward a much broader AI system for running commercial facilities across the country. We’re hiring our second founding engineer. You’ll help scale Tightrope’s first product across entire commercial property portfolios. You’ll build systems that ingest leases and insurance documents, uncover liability exposure, and power email and voice agents that work with tenants and vendors to close coverage gaps. COI tracking is only the start. Every new deployment gives Tightrope the property data, integrations, communication channels, and customer trust to take on more of the work of running a building. Over time, you’ll decide with us the workflows Tightrope should own next—and lead the product that does it.

Requirements

Has built substantial customer-facing products across the stack.
Can reason through the full system—from document and data ingestion to data models, agent behavior, and the operator-facing product.
Wants to own a product while it is still being discovered: working with property management teams, prototyping possible solutions, and developing conviction through real deployments.
Uses AI tools aggressively to explore ideas, then knows how to make the resulting product accurate, explainable, and dependable enough to work with sensitive customer data and communications.
Wants to work closely with a small team and contribute meaningfully to both Tightrope’s technical foundation and what we build next.

Responsibilities

Help scale Tightrope’s first product across entire commercial property portfolios.
Build systems that ingest leases and insurance documents.
Build systems that uncover liability exposure.
Build systems that power email and voice agents that work with tenants and vendors to close coverage gaps.
Decide with the team which workflows Tightrope should own next.
Lead the product development for new workflows.